Shirt.



E. L.l SWIKARD.

SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED APE. 20, 1914.

Patented Ywar. 23, 1915.

srmns ramena* EnWAItn II SWIKARI), or cHIoAGo, ILLINOIS, AssI'GNon or ONE-TRIBUTO WILLIAM n. iin-nem AND ONE-THIRD 'ro EDWIN i .soLns1vIITII, BOTH or CHICAGO? ILLINOIS. l

SHIRT.,

Appiicau'on filed April 2o, 1914.v semi N6. 833,098.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. SWIKARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedl new and useful vImprovements in Shirts, of which the lfol'-y lowing is a specication.

This invention relates to improvements in mens shirts and it has relation more par-l ticularly tothe neck, band, the invention consisting in embodying one or more co1'-v button/ or buttons will always be -in proper place on the shirt.

In the accompanying drawinglillustrating the invention Figure l'is a perspective View showing a portion of the shirt, including the neck band, and embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the` line 2-2 of Fig.'1. iFig.. is a sectional View similar to Fig. showing a slightly different arrangement of the button. I

Referring to the drawings, the neck band 4 of the shirt 5 is provided with the usual buttonhole 6, but instead of button-holes at the other end and at the back of the neck band I provide buttons 7 which are permanently engaged with the neck band. I may employ collar buttons made of Aany 'suitable lmaterial and I obtain the permanent engagement of the collar button with the shirt band by locating'the baseP 8 ofthe1` collar button between the`inner and outer plies 9, 10 O f the neck band.y Where there yare a plurality of plies between the inner and outer pliesl of the neck and it may be found convenient to locate t e bas of the ,collar button in the middle of the plies or beneath intermediate .'plies' or in some lother'wayf which varying `conditions of service may rovidd show to be desirable". The base Sis with prongs l3"which engage wit one of the inner or intermediate yplies to permanentlyhold the button in fixedv relation with theneck band Y v The shank l1 of the collar button projects through a' sui tably forined opening in the comprising` a plies of theneck band above the base ofthe collar button, andas this opening conforms to the size.l and shape of the shank which is much. smallerv than the base of the yclla'r button the button will be permanently held in its -properplace in the neck band. The edge of the opening in the neck band throughkwhich the shank projects may be stitched to retain its shape andv size, or otherwise reinforced as may Joe fo'und dsirable. v

It may be desirable to stifl'en the neck band by inserting astrip of suitable mate- .rial of a more rigid character than the cloth `from which the neck bandgproper is constructed, .such as Ythe reinforcing strip 12 which is shown in Fig. 3. In this event I find that it is desirable to engage the prongs 13 of the base with the reinforcing strip,

Specication O f Letters Patent. Fatemi-,ed Malgglg thestripyperformng the function of the intermediate "plies and holding the button securely and 'permanently in its proper place in the neck band,

It will be apparent that various changes vmaybe made in the form, construction` and arrangement of the parts without d epart. ingfrom the spirit and scope of the 1nven tion or sacrificing any of its material `ad' vantages, the dforms hereinbefore de I scribed being merely preferred embodiments thereof.

What I claim ters Patent is 2,.

. 1. A shirt having an unbroken neckband plurality of plies permanently secured together at'their edges and a collar button having 'a base disposed between said plies, said base being provided with prongs adapted toI engage the intermediate plies and relation y'to said band. v

and de-sire secure-by fLetermanently hold said button in'xed 2. A` shirt having anpunbroken neckband" l -comprisingaplui'ality of pliespermanently a reinforc` secured together at their edges, ing strip disposed and insepa'rably hld between said plies, and a collar button abase prdvided with prongs adaptedy to eli-- `gage said reinforcing strip' and hol d said with `said reinforc, ing strip and4 iieckband. 9

button iA xed relatio -ED\VA.`RB`L, SWIKARD. j .'Witnesse's: L

EDWINP. GOLDSMITH, WILLIAM R. DUNGIN.

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